mushroom

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  1. noun Any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds, as those of the genus Agaricus.
  2. noun Something shaped like one of these fungi.
  3. intransitive verb To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly: The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.
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  • I was pale as a mushroom, and the skin on my face was overly sensitive. —  Robin Hobb
  • Inside the mushroom was a mushbed, and on the bed lay a distressingly ancient old woman, sleeping. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • [22] This mushroom was the scene of a remarkable occurrence, that it will scarcely do to relate, but which, taking all together, furnishes a ludicrous sample of national manners, to say nothing of miracles Footnote 22: Pronounced Ro-ban- sown . —  A Residence in France
  • But she said the button - known to operators as the "mushroom" - was found pushed down in the operator's compartment. —  Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
  • When the mushroom are almost at their desired level of juicy tenderness, add the bacon —  Blogtimore, Hon
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  1. Alteration (influenced by room) of Middle English musheron, from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum, from Old French mousseron, from Medieval Latin musariō, musariōn-.

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  1. Also dial. or obsolete mushrome, mushrump, musheron; from Middle English musheron, muscheron, from Old French mouscheron, mouseron, a mushroom, from mousse, moss: see moss.
  2. from mushroom, n.
 

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